I'm a new player on Red, my main here is level 39 and unguilded. Been playing here in earnest for about five weeks.
Frankly, Red is the only reason why I'm still playing this emu.
And the only reason I'm playing still playing on Red is precisely
because it's full of nutjobs, psychopaths, and various other malcontents and degenerates... who sometimes do say strange things out of character. But that's part of the charm. Logging into Red is like walking into a seedy dive bar on the bad side of town and wondering how many beers you can drink before someone stabs you.
As a new player on this server, /ooc is a nonstop tutorial and a window into the community. You don't have that shit on blue, you have thousands of nameless and faceless pixels running around chasing merbs all day saying
"Sow plz, thx" and running away. That was half my interaction on blue, and the other half was nerdrage tells, from someone I'd never seen or heard of, about something being camped. Sorry broski, I'm not here to steal your fucking gnoll champion, I just logged out here last night.
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When I'm running around on Red and I come across toons, there's a good chance I actually already know of them. I know if they're a douchebag or unstable. I know if they're kind to new players. I know who they hate, who their friends are, what guild they're in, and much of what they're doing.
It's a good thing to recognize the names and personas of characters I come across, and /ooc is what makes that possible. It's the hub of the community. It facilitates the transmission of actual human personality into a game world that is relatively stale at this point.
Without that human touch, you might as well play Minesweeper or go outside or some shit.
05-25-2015, 01:14 AM
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